Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems

In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.

If you would be good, first believe that you are bad.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

Nothing great comes into being all at once.